THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 8. 1917.
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Metal dies, pressw'k. Jubilee Mfg. Co.
Elec Fans. '..50 Burgess-Granden.
Platinum Wedding Rliis Edholm.
Try the noonday 35-cenI luncheon
at the Empress Garden, amidst pleas
ant surroundings, music and entertain
ment. Advertisement
Visits in Omaha Leslie Lawton of
Palisade, a prominent Nebraskan,
spent the week-end in Omaha on his
way home from Washington, D. C.
Divorce is Granted Judge Day, sit
ting in divorce court, granted a decree
to John G. Krause from Mathilda
Krause on grounds of alleged cruelty.
Allowed to Rgelster J. Tangeman,
arrested at South Side for failure to
register, was released after he had
been allowed to register. He tried
to enlist in the navy, but was rejected
for physical reasons.
Invalid Needs Chair Bessie Ran
dall, superintendent of the Visiting
iNurse association of Omaha, knows
worthy man who has suffered with
heart trouble for a year and to whom
the loan of a wheel chair during the
summer would be a real blessing.
Miss Randall's office is on the fifth
floor of the city hall.
WITHERING FIRE j MAY SET DRAFT DAY NORTHCLIFFE TELLS
CRUMPLES TEUTONS; FOR COMING WEEK1 OF FIGHT ON SPIES
Series of Violent Rushes in At
tempt to Retake Chemin
Des Dames is Beaten"
Back by French.
Indications Point to Drawing j British Journalist Tells How
for Military Service Soon; Phantom Power of Ger
Method of Selection many Was Crushed by
Not Made Public. i Censorship.
Men Who Pass Snelling
Will Become Officers
Minneapolis, Minn., July 7.- (Spe-
rial Icleftram.) Brigadier General
William H. Sage, commandant at
Fort Snelling, announced today that
every man who survives the training
camp period at Snelling will become
an officer.
Conditions in the regular army are
such, the general believes, that it is
possible for some of the students who
pass the examination for provisional
second lieutenants of the regular
army to become captains before they
reach France. The army is short of
officers and provision has been made
that reserve officers may be pro
moted without regard to length of
service. This order has been made
necessary to officer the regular army,
Students from the Snelling camp
are to dc utilized as officers in vari
ous branches of the service. Tentative
plans of the War department, accord
ing to word today, contemplate the
use or ninety-nine men from each
company, or in that proportion, if
each company cannot furnish a suf
ficient number of students who oual
ify for the foreign service as follows:
Aviation, 12 men; quartermaster's
corps, 12; provisional lieutenants in
regular army, 16; ordnance depart
ment, 1J; active reserve list, 47.
Others will go into the reserve.
The efficiency board has rccom
mended the dismissal of twenty more
students from camp.
Federal Agents Seize Letters
To Former Austrian Consul
Xew York, July 6. Federal au
thorities investigating suspected
methods of communication between
the United States and Germany, an
nounced here today the seizure of a
bundle of letters which arriving from
the central powers apparently were
intended to reach Alexander von
Xuber, formally Austrian consul gen
eral in New York. Von Xuber left
here after the government investi
gated charges that he shipped reserv
ists to Austria under fradulent pass
ports in 1915.
How the letters now confiscated
were to reach von Nifber has not
been disclosed nor was his present
whereabouts announced. The letters
were brought here by sailors on a
Scandinavian steamer and delivered
to a saloonkeeper in Hoboken.
The sailors admitted they were
paid to smuggle mail past the British
censors. Some of the letters were
addressed to persons in New Zea
land, Australia and India.
Still Need 100,000 Men to
Put Guard to War Strength
Washington. July 7. Latest de
ports to the War department show
that the total strength of the National
Guard is something over 300,000.
More than 100,000 men are still need
ed to bring the guard up to war
strength, and vacancies, probably will
have to be filled by draft.
A gain of more than 30,000 enlisted
men is shown for the last ten days
of June. Only a portion of this num
ber represent enlistments during this
period, the total being swollen by
official recognition of a number of
National Guard units recently author
ized and formed.
This recognition was given prior
to June 30, that the states might re
ceive full credit for all their men
under arms in computing allowances
in making the draft.
Richards Named Chief of
Export License Division
Washington, July 6. C. A. Rich
ards, a New York exporter, was ap
pointed today chief of the Depart
ment of Commerce's new division of
export licenses, which will issue li
censes for export under the export
control section of the espionage act.
Export control will be put into active
operation next week with the issuance
by President Wilson of proclama
tions requiring licenses for certain
commodities before they can be
shipped abroad.
Lieutenant Turner Takes
Col. Bingham's Place Here
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, July 7. (Special Tele
gram.) First Lieutenant Frank P.
Turner, signal officers' reserve corps,
is relieved from duty in the Western
department and will proceed to Oma
ha for duty as supply officer, signal
corps general supply depot, at that
place, relieving Colonel Gonzales S.
Bingham, quartermaster corps.
Bloomington Street Car
Strike Finally Settled
Bloomington, 111., July 7. The
strike of street car men, which today
assumed such threatening proportions
as to necessitate the presence of state
troops, was settled late this afternoon.
The demands of the union were sub
stantially granted and . committee ap
pointed to adjust any outstanding dif
ferences. Mrs. Wilson Hangs Up Card
Of Food Administration
Washington. July 7. Mrs. Wood
row Wilson today personally superin
tended the placing of a food admin
istration membership card in a win
dow of the dining room at the White
House visible from the street. The
card was the first pr;nted of millions
that will be sent out for hanging in
llie windows of American homes.
(By AfwoeUtc. FrtM.)
French Front in France, July 7.
Personal initiative, combined with
bravery and tenacity, won for the
French a splendid victory, when the
Germans attempted last Tuesday
night to re-take Chemin Des Dames
by a furious attack. The command
ing general, after inspecting the en
tire eleven-mile front, where the bat
tle occurred, declared to the Asso
ciated Press today:
"The German crown prince had ar
ranged a surprise party for us in or
der to offset the Russian victory in
Galicia, but-he knocked at the wrong
door -and received a disagreeable re
ception." German Fire Intense.
Before the enemy's attack began,
an uncanny silence reigned along this
famous road, where the hostile arm
ies are facing each other at close
quarters. Suddenly the German
bombardment opened and its intens
ity impressed the French general as
being greater than he ever before
experienced on the Somme, at Ver
dun or in the Champagne, where he
had taken part in all the battles since j
the beginning of hostilities.
The shell smoke was thick and the
fumes from poisonous and lacrimosal
shells so heavy it was impossible to !
take observation.
The French general attempted to
communicate with his battalion and
artillery commanders, but the wires
had been broken by projectiles.
Then, to his astonishment, he saw
his own artillery without awaiting
orders open a barrage fire.
He learned later that his artillery
colonel, suspecting something was
about to occur, had gone to a much
exposed listening post between the
opposing trenches, and from this van
tage point observed an unusual activ
ity in the German lines. The colonel
therefore ordered a curtain fire di
rected in front of the Germans.
Meanwhile, the French infantry in
the first line swept the German front
lines with rifle fire and hand grena
des, while the French trench mortars
worked as never before. The Ger
man infantrymen who could be seen
waiting with bayonets fixed now
found it impossible to leave their
trenches and go over the top. At
this stage of the battle on the line
from Californiae plateau above
Craonne to the Casemosson plateau.
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:,uuu yarns westward, tne greatest
part of the two German divisions
joined in the attack.
German Fire Held Up.
Their artillery owing to the close
proximity of the fire and German
lines, was unable to play on the
French front line for fear of hitting
their own men. The French gunners,
more accurate in firing, managed to
shower shells on the German
trenches.
Several strong detachments of Ger
man infantrymen, notwithstanding
the French cannonading, succeeded in
crossing the intervening space and
obtained a footing in the French
trenches at a few points. The de
fenders, composed of regiments from
southern France, who had originally
captured the position were deter
mined to maintain their hold. They
immediately counterattacked and
everywhere ejected the Germans.
Then they impetuously advanced and
captured several German trenches
which they still hold.
the whole action here as at other
points in this battle on the eleven-
mile front, was not a mere trench
raid, but a carefully planned attempt
by the Germans to reconquer Chemin
Des Dames, to whose loss they can
not reconcile themselves.
Confident of Success.
The nature of the attack is proved
by the fact that the German infantry
men carried into the battle their
whole equipment and several days'
ratiops and they evidently were con
fident of success.
Hundreds of their dead, many of
whom were youths of the 1918 class,
lie with packs still strapped on their
backs in front of the French line
and in the shell craters. The French
commanding officers are enthusiastic
about the undiminished dash and
vigor of their men which they re
gard as largely attributable to the
moral aid provided bv the arrival of
American troops in France and the
Russian forward movement in Galicia.
The commanding general declared
tBy AssoclmM PremO
Washington, July 7. Selection day
for the new National army is ap
proaching rapidly as the local ex
emption boards in the various states
complete their organization. Indica
tions are that the drawing will be held
next week, but no official statement
has been made as to the War depart
ment's plans.
Administration officials still main
tain strict silence as to the method to
be followed. It is understood, how
ever, that it is proposed to place in a
single jury wheel in Washington one
complete set oi numoers. wnen a
number is taken from the wheel, the
man in each exemption district whose
card bears that serial number will be
drafted. Thus as each number is
drawn approximately 30,000 men will
be drafted, or one in each exemption
district. If 1,200,000 men are to be
called before the exemption boards
in the first selection, which seepis
highly probable, only forty numbers
would need to be drawn. "
There are numerous complications
which must arise, however, and the
method of solving them can be known
I only when the administration makes
known its plan in detail, tor instance
the numberof registered individuals
in each district who are liable for mili-
itary service will certainly not be the
same. Aliens are registered, but not
liable for duty.
Provision must be made also to
balance as far as possible the chances
of military duty between the men in
each district, so that disqualification
of a large number in any particular
district for any reason will not put
upon those disqualified additional
likelihood of being sent to the front.
While the first contingent of the
new army, under the bill, is limited to
500,000 men, an additional 125,000 or
150,000 will be needed to make up the
reserve battalions of this force. Re
serve battalions are now being re
cruited for all regular regiments and
will be recruited for the National
guard when it is drafted into the
federal service. The organization of
the National army will be on the same
basis.
It may be necessary also to draft
enough men to fill up the regulars
and National guard to war strength,
although no decision to this end has
been reached as yet. The regulars
are now close to war strength and the
guard units are recruiting rapidly. If
possible they will be completed bv
the war volunteer system.
There is one other consideration
which will affect the total number of
men to be drawn. Opinion varies as
to the number of exemptions which
must be made for the various causes
outlined in the exemption regulations.
A rough estimate of at least 50 per
cent exemptions for physical or other
reasons has been generally employed !
m computing the probable size ot the
task before the exemption boards.
It is not known whether the gov
ernment plans to call double ti.e num
ber of men actually needed on the
first selection, in order to provide
against these exemptions. Possibly
only the smaller number will be
taken, to be filled out by later selec
tions until the ranks are full.
If the exemption factor is allowed
for the first drawing, however, it
seems likely that a million or a million
and a half names would be provided
for at least at that time, the men to
appear for examination in the 'order
in which they were drawn and the cards
of those not reached in any district
where the quota was filled before they
came up before the board to be re
turned. Anotjier factor which is being
worked out in the selection regula
tions is the provision of the law re
quiring that each state be given credit
at the drawings for the number of
men it has supplied as volunteers in
the regular army or the National
guard.
Eight states reported completion of
the organization of their local and
district exemption boards. It ap
peared tonight that there is but slight
possibility of setting the draft ma
chinery in motion by Monday. Gen
eral Crowder asked that all boards be
organized by tomorrow, but present
indications are that this will be impossible.
to the Associated Press that the pres
ence of American fighting men not
only encouraged the French soldiers
in the ranks, but also their commanders.
(Bjf Associated Freta.)
Washington, July 7. Lord North
cliffe, head of the British missions in
this country, today authorized publi
cation of parts ot a confidenital speech
on spies and censorship made to the
National Press club July 4. He de
scribed the work of spies in England
and the flood of vital information that
pours out over the cables througl
neutral countries to Germany and
spoke of the dangers of any except
technical military and naval censor
shin of the press. Onlv on two oc
casions in the last month, Lord
Northcliffe said, had .he seen any
thing published in American newspa
pers that might have been of value to
the enemy.
"The address follows:
"What does not seem to be under
stood here and what .e did not un
derstand at the beginning of the war
is that the really deadly high ex
plosive news is not newspaper new?
but the news sent out by spies m
code to neutral countries for trans
mission to Germany.
"It is not difficult for spies to get
news. Their task is the delivery o
the goods and on that task they con
centrate.
"Now that ocean travel has become
so difficult, now that the British mat
censor has perfected his methods, the
enemy spy working m our midst is
thrown back entirely on the cable and
one or two steamer routes.
"I do not know whether you have
a mail censorship on letters to Spam
but 1 venture to think that it you
have not and start opening letters to
that country, you win get as ricn
haul of information as our secret serv
ice did out of the censoring of Ameri
can letters to Europe.
"The cable censor must be re
sourceful. A world of meaning can
be concealed behind the words 'Mother
better' or 'Mother going to seashore.
Manv complaints will come from bust
ness men as to detention of their
messages, but business men of stand
ing can easly satisfy the cable
authorities and in any case, the main
business at the present time is war
and lives are more important than
business losses.
"We in England were loath to be
lieve in the existence of an extensiv(
German spy system in our midst until
strange happenings by land ana sea
proved their spy preparations, firmlj
established in England in years before
the war, were just as efficient as all
their other preparations.
"The German spies are divided in
to five or six classes, working inde
oendentlv of each other.
"There is the business spy, whose
work is the gathering of information
oersonal and otherwise. An establish
ment called "schimmelpfennings"
opened out in England, purporting to
be something like your Bradstreet's
or Dun, but really with the object
of ascertaining the secret for making
guns, munitions and what not of
every plant in England, together
with any other information that
might be useful to Germany, when
it went to war.
The second form of spying was or
ganized by the German consuls in
Great Britain, who collected intorma
tion by means of hotel waiter, bar
bers, and domestic servants, to whom
they paid comparatively small sums
monthly.
"In naval and military towns the
German government provided Ger
mans with capital with which to open
and purchase hotels. All this was
done through the consuls.
"Then there was a series of spies
organized by the famous department
which had its headquarters in Brus
sels. These were spies who moved
about in a good social circles as a
rule, picking up any Information they
could get. When it came to pick
ing up information as to British
psychology, they got it all wrong, for
it has been notorious that, almost
without exception they reported to
Berlin that Great Britain would not
go to war. Members of this class of
spy were entirely unknown to each
other and only known to headquarters
by numbers. They were paid a mini
mum of $3,000 and a maximum of
$12,000 a year and were usually en
gaged in some other kind of work
very often insurance work, very
often s traveling salesmen. Quite a
number of them were women. Out of
respect of their sex, among the spies
we have shot at the Tower of Lon
don, the women have been exempted
and sent to long terms of imprison
ment. "Further, there were the military
rive on Refrigerators
We are going to sell them regardless
of present cost. Every PEERLESS and
BADGER box to go at 20 discount.
Regular $16.50 Refrigerators, 60-lb. capacity. .$13.20
Regular $19.50 Refrigerators, 75-lb. capacity. .$15.60
Regular $25.50 Refrigerators, 90-lb. capacity. .$20.40
Regular $33.25 Refrigerators, 3-door style $26.60
All others go at same discount.
SUMMER HARDWARE SPECIALS
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BAKE OVENS
$1.65 Oven, special $1.32
$1.85 Oven, special $1.48
$1.00 Oven, special 73c
$2.50 Oven, special $1.98
$3.00 Oven, special $2.49
ICE CREAM FREEZERS
$2.45 White Mountain $1.98
$2.95 White Mountain $2.39
WATER COOLERS
4-quart capacity, fits in ice
chamber, at 87e
GARBAGE CANS
Regularly $1.25, special 89c
DOOR MATS
Four Sizes
98c, $1.23, $1.48, $1.78
Cedar Oil Mop 43c
LAWN SPRINKLER
Ring Sprinkler, like cut 59c
HEDGE SHEARS
Regularly $2.50, special $2.19
Regularly $2.25, special $1.98
GRASS SHEARS
Regularly $1.00, special 68c
GRASS HOOKS
Regularly 50c, special 33c
SPONGES
Large Size, special 39c
WALL DUSTERS
Regular $1.00 size, with long and
Bhort handle, special 64c
GAS RANGES
A. B. Cabinet Style, 4 burneri, $30
$5.00 for your old itovt.
OIL STOVES
2- burner Quick Meal $9.25
3- burner Quick Meal $11.85
KITCHEN CABINET
One complete cabinet, with cereal
jars and aluminum top.. $19.85
VACUUM CLEANERS
Hcgularly $7.50, special $5.85
CAMP GRATES
Two Sizes 90c and $1.15
CROQUET SETS
$1.25 $1.75 $2.50
and the naval spies. This kind of spy
ing is regarded as legitimate among
all nations. Carl Lody, whom 1 saw
tried by court martial and who had
an American passport and spoke
American with the slightest German
accent, was a legitimate naval spy and
was so regarded by our authorities,
who treated him as well as he could
be treated in the circumstances, and
finally, very properly shot him. He
was captured owing to clumsiness on
his part. Among other foolishnesses
he kept his code in his pocket, and
therefore knew at the moment he was
arrested that he was a dead man. One
of the things that led to his detection
was the cable censorship.
"We had been warned for years that
the country was full of German spies,
but did not believe it. Germans were
admitted to our clubs, went about
among us and seemed very friendly.
At the outbreak of the war we found
that we had been entertaining several
battalions of spies. I remember the
sight that went on day after day in
London, just before the outbreak of
the war, when they swarmed to the
German consulate to get their pass
ports vised. Many of them obviously
had information that a war was com
ing and that they might have difficulty
in getting out."
Training Bases Ready for
American Troops in France
Pans, July 7. Training bases for
American troops in France are ready
for occupancy. They include avia
tion, artillery, infantry and medical
bases.
The section of the battle front even
tually to be occupied by the
Americans has been approved by
Major General Pershing. The loca
tion is a military secret and no date
or actual time has been specified
for American participation in the
fighting.
1 he battalion of I nited States sol
diers that took part in Independence
day celebration in Paris, has begun
training at its permanent camp.
East St. Louis Men Demand
Resignations of Police Heads
East St. Louis, III., July 7.-The
Kast St. Louis Chamber of Commerce
today sent a letter to Albert von Hoff
man, chairman of the Reed emergency
relief committee of St. Louis, which
is temporarily caring for negroes who
fled from East St. Louis, declaring
that East St. Louis is secure to all
law-abiding negroes who wish to re
turn. The letter states that the Cham
ber of Coumerce and the citizens'
committee are able to give positive
assurance that the negroes will be
safe and will have the strongest pro
tection of civil and military forces.
After a meeting today of the citi
zens' committee of the Chamber of
Commerce it was announced the
resignation of Chief of Police Payne
and of Cornelius Hickey, night chief,
would be demanded by the commit
tee. Bee Wants-Ads Produce Results.
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We Offer 800 Dresses at Startling Reductions
Dainty dresses of voiles, ginghams, linens, nets, batistes, taffeta, erepo de chines and. Georgettes
in every imaginable color; plsin and fancies; stripes, checks, plaids; and leu variety ofjsmart, Btvr
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sacrifices in price.
Values to $12.50
95
Those Popular Gingham
Dresses, as well as voiles
and white nets comprise
this lot. You'll pro
nounce the values the
best Omaha affords.
Values to $19.75
$095
Dainty Voiles, in all col
ors, French. Ginghams,
linens and chiffons, in
many of the season's
prettiest styles: all under
one price head Monday.
Value to $35.00
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Smart styled dresses In
taffetas, crepe de chines
and Georgette combina
tions; navy and all col
ors. Early choosing is ad
vised on this special lot.
Values to $45.00
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Rich beaded Georgettes,
jaunty styled taffetas
all favored colors; style
distinction marks every
dress in the lot. No
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The eight new Mitchell
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cars in one. They embody
all the best attractions
found in 257 late models.
Each style Is exclusive,
designed by Mitchell artists
and built by Mitchell crafts
men. In finish and luxury
they show an added cost
of 24 per cent over last
year's Mitchell models.
All have the Bate shock
absorbing springs the
comfort springs which
have never yet been
broken.
These cars typify new
standards which make them
dominate their class. They
result from scientific factory
efficiency, which on this
year's output saves $4,000,
000. That Is what pays for
the many extra values.
They are built to the stand
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strength twice the usual
margin of safety. That
makes them lifetime cars.
They differ from the aver
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